NCRI- On Wednesday, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – attacked a gathering at Ahmad Shamlou's tomb in Emamzadeh Taher Cemetery in western suburbs of Tehran. Shamlou was a great contemporary Iranian poet with international recognition who passed away in July 24, 2000.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Special Units and plain-cloths members of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) brought in various vehicles including cars, vans and buses to the gathering of more than 300 mourners to take away possible detainees. They attacked the citizens preventing them from getting close to Shamlou's tomb. Mrs. Ayda Shamlou, the poet's widow, was not safe from the insults of the mullahs' security forces and was forced to leave the tomb.

The Iranian Resistance pays homage to late Ahmad Shamlou and calls on international human rights organizations, in particular, the international PEN to condemn the anti-cultural measures of the medieval regime in Iran.        

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 24, 2008